Increasing dexterity

Thehalfelf · Post by **Thehalfelf** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 9:37 am

How many pionts can dexterity be increased in the game?

Pebz · Post by **Pebz** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 10:10 am

This depends very on class/alignment...

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 12:34 pm

Pebz · Post by **Pebz** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 5:31 pm

Originally posted by frogus
2

Which ones are those?

Delita · Post by **Delita** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 7:19 pm

You get one point of Dex in Watcher's Keep.

There's a piece of armor that gives 1 dex.

Gaunts of Dex don't really do much if you already have 18.

You'll prolly lose a point of Dex in Hell if yer a Paladin.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 11:10 pm

if you are running with nalia or immie as main thief in party, give the dex bonus to either of them.

if you increase thier dex, their thief skills go up!!!I gained about 40 points per type when I gave immie a 1 point dex upgrade.

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 4:27 am

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly
if you are running with nalia or immie as main thief in party, give the dex bonus to either of them.

if you increase thier dex, their thief skills go up!!!I gained about 40 points per type when I gave immie a 1 point dex upgrade.

Sorry to correct you, but you only gain 5% in each of those abilities that rely on DEX per point and only if your DEX is on a certain level, in all cases if it's above 17.

There are 7 abilities and at least DI (not sure about ST) isn't influenced by DEX. So you'd gain 30% in total rather than 40% per type. Maybe the large difference you've noticed was influenced by a change of armor?

For further information see also Game Banshee's BG2 character class section, -> thieving skill dexterity adjustments. Game Banshee has it all covered, as usual.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 3:06 pm

Which ones are those?

Racial modifier and and the Engine of Lum the Mad (or whatever it was called

) I wasn't talking about DEX enhancing items...

Loki · Post by **Loki** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 6:20 am

if you're a rogue, you can get an extra oint in dex from the 3rd level of watchers keep

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 2:24 am

Loki, if youre talking about deck of many things, DONT WASTE it!!1 you can use lum and hell to get all teh good dex bonuse, in fact you cant give any hell bonuses to anyone but you, so yeah, dont waste the deck of many htings and star card on dex for rogue pc.. give to viccy or jahiera, any you gain wisdom.....MORE SPELL SLOTS!!!

UberJason · Post by **UberJason** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 11:51 am

3 maximum if you are a thief or thief multiclass

1 from Machine of Lum the mad
1 from attacking Sarevok in Hell (in addition to two points of strength)
1 from Deck of Many things

Multis benefit more from Deck/hell they get a point in each of their main attributes.

Kep in mind you can alos lose a point in the selfishness test or the dream in Spellhold

Theoretical maximum unmodified dex

Import elf/halfing with 19 dex from BG1 + tome of dex

20 dex

+those three bonuses

23 dex.

Loki · Post by **Loki** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 12:15 pm

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly
Loki, if youre talking about deck of many things, DONT WASTE it!!1 you can use lum and hell to get all teh good dex bonuse, in fact you cant give any hell bonuses to anyone but you, so yeah, dont waste the deck of many htings and star card on dex for rogue pc.. give to viccy or jahiera, any you gain wisdom.....MORE SPELL SLOTS!!!

Dude, just sayin' where you can ge the "extra" one from... and that you need to be a rogue...

personally, I gave everything to my character - but that's because I'm selfish...

Loki

PS.. and i'm a paladin... the difference in str was meaningless - as i use a str enhancing belt... what the hell eh?